The Collected Blurbs of Gary Shteyngart

Oddly Normal: One Family’s Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms with His Sexuality by John Schwartz

“Oddly Normal is a funny, touching and indispensible book. Moving as well as buoyant, it will give parents of gay children a great deal of hope.”
—Gary Shteyngart

The Nostalgist by Griffin Hansbury

“[The] Nostalgist is the most important book to come out of the Isle of Man last year! It kept me up all night.”
–Gary Shteyngart

The City of Devi by Manil Suri

“The City of Devi is so exuberant and sexy, one may wish to purchase a prophylactic alongside it. When the world comes to an end, I will spend my last days in Mumbai clutching a copy of Manil Suri’s dazzling epic.”
—Gary Shteyngart

You Were Never Really Here by Jonathan Ames

Broken Piano for President by Patrick Wensink

“I like Patrick Wensink’s work so much my heart had to issue its own cease-and-desist order.”
—Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story

Equilateral by Ken Kalfus

“When a new Ken Kalfus novel appears I stop eating, drinking, shaving, and breathing until I finish it. Equilateral is one of his smartest and most ambitious books yet. It left me thinking and wondering well past my bedtime.”
—Gary Shteyngart

Shteyngart Blurbs: The Documentary by Ed Champion

Encyclopedia of a Life in Russia by José Manuel Prieto

“A terrifyingly original writer, José Manuel Prieto’s prose shakes the walls of the literary kingdom.”
—Gary Shteyngart

El Iluminado: A Graphic Novel by Ilan Stavans and Steve Sheinkin

“Crypto-Jews of the Southwest, your voices are about to be heard! Sheinkin and Stavans do justice to both academic scholarship and the graphic novel in this amazing new work.”
—Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story

How to Be a Person: The Stranger’s Guide to College, Sex, Intoxicants, Tacos, and Life Itself by Lindy West, Dan Savage, et al

“Suck it, Proust. This book about stuff is much better than those things you wrote.”
—Gary Shteyngart

Too Good to Be True by Benjamin Anastas

“A spectacular account of mind-blowing failure. It is short and it is beautiful and you must buy it.”
—Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story

A Working Theory of Love by Scott Hutchins

“A brainy, bright, laughter-through-tears, can’t-stop-reading-until-it’s-over kind of novel. Fatherless daughters, mother-smothered sons, appealing ex-wives, mouthy high school drop-outs—damn, this book’s got something for everyone!”
—Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story and Absurdistan

The Story of My Purity by Francesco Pacifico

“Ho, ho and ho! Insanely funny and terrifically offensive, Francesco Pacifico’s novel fell on my head like a bowling ball and knocked me the hell out. Among many other things, it’s also a great updating of Roman life. American publishers don’t really translate from the Italiano anymore, so it’s great to see a worthy translation of what is sure to be a modern Italian classic.”
—Gary Shteyngart, author ofSuper Sad True Love Story 

This Must Be the Place by Anna Winger

“As smart and cosmopolitan as the twenty-first century city she chronicles so well, Anna Winger’s This Must Be the Place is an essential love story for our confused and difficult times. Funny, touching, and unforgettable.”
—Gary Shteyngart 

The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris

“Arresting, ground-shifting, beautiful and tragic. This is the book a new generation of writers will answer to. No one in America writes like this.”
—Gary Shteyngart, author of Absurdistan and The Russian Debutante’s Handbook